Gaukel Street Pedestrian Promenade

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Any thoughts on the impacts of the new Cycling Grid on the pedestrian promenade? 

I keep hearing that the City doesn't want to route the Cycling Grid down Gaukel (connecting existing Young Street cycle route to Victoria Park) because it will be a pedestrian path but it seems to me that that would be a bonus.

The City's traffic study done for the Cycling Grid showed a 4X increase in traffic at the Gaukel/Charles intersection and one-way streets (Joseph) are well known to be a divide in neighbourhoods. 

Does this seem counter productive to the goal?

Ultimately the traffic is simply being shifted from Joseph to Charles, I don't think that matters much.

In fact, I'd love to have seen Joseph actually closed to cars, all the traffic shifted to Charles, and the plaza connected to the park, but that's not going to happen for a long time.

As for "one way streets being a divide"...theres a difference between the 3 lane one way highway of Bridgeport Rd. and a one lane road that is one way.  Duke St. is one way south of Krug but it in no way divides the neighbourhood (that's the job of Weber St.).

I don't think your reading of the traffic study is very accurate. 
It's not true that "traffic is simply being shifted from Joseph to Charles". If so, that still begs the question, what about the impacts of dividing the pedestrian street by a busy street, Charles? 
The City's traffic study showed a significant increase of cars diverting to local streets.
Those streets have a significant number of people living in affordable housing. Do you support the displacement of those families and the kids who can currently ride their bikes on the street?